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Even though contained, WA's Emergency Services Minister Stephen Dawson said crews remained on high alert. People whose homes have been destroyed or severely damaged will be eligible for a $4,000 payment, while those whose homes suffered minor damage may be eligible for a $2,000 payment from the government.
The Washington Emergency Management Division runs more than 120 tsunami sirens along the Washington coast. These are outdoor notification systems meant to inform people disconnected from other ...
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Immediate action is not necessary until a "Flood Warning" is issued. The Chehalis River at Centralia is forecast to reach the "minor" flood stage between 4 and 10 p.m. on Dec. 5.
The purpose of the warning system is to assist in the evacuation of residents in the river valleys around Mount Rainier, a volcano in Washington, in the event of a lahar. Pierce County works in partnership with the USGS, the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN), Washington Military Department's Emergency Management Division, and South Sound ...
An example of a Wireless Emergency Alert on an Android smartphone, indicating a Tornado Warning in the covered area. Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), formerly known as the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) and, prior to that, as the Personal Localized Alerting Network (PLAN), [1] is an alerting network in the United States designed to disseminate emergency alerts to cell phones using Cell ...
Cellphones, TVs and radios across the U.S. simultaneously blared out an emergency alert today. Here's what to know and why it happened.
As of July 6, 2023, 461 emergency workers had been deployed to fight the fire using engines and multiple aircraft. [12] The fire caused Washington State Route 14 to be closed in both directions from Milepost 56 to Milepost 65 beginning on July 4. [8] It reopened to traffic on July 12 after the fire had reached 80 percent containment. [13]